Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

- Pierre Bourgault

We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the others.

- Pierre Bourgault

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

- Pierre Bourgault

Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. …

- Pierre Bourgault

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

- Pierre Bourgault

It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.

- Pierre Bourgault